They say bad luck comes in threes. True to form, I was just struck: First, I got a piece of glass stuck in my foot — ouch and yes, expensive! Next I got food poisoning — ouch and yes, expensive. Lastly, I got a crummy phone — ouch ... 

The cool weather today and Friday will give way to cold conditions this weekend. Today, we will see a high around 56 under sunny skies. Winds will be from the north 5 to 11 mph becoming east. Clouds thicken tonight with a low around 32. Friday: A 20 ... 

A 15-year-old Andrews High School student  was charged with communicating obscene messages after admitting he was the one who wrote a profanity-laced letter to a teacher. The hand-written note was slipped under the teacher’s classroom door ... 

Miss Ruby’s Kids, an early literacy program for families in Georgetown County, has grown since it was founded in February 2003 by sisters Jo Fortuna and Betsy Marlow. When they started, they served five Pawleys Island families. Now, they serve ... 

A Pawleys Island real estate agent who had announced he was running as a Republican for House District 108 withdrew from the race this week. Randy Hollister, who works with Realestar in Pawleys Island, said he realized he didn’t have enough tim ... 

Stop. Educate. Enforce. That is the motto of the new SEE program that has been launched by the South Carolina Highway Patrol in an effort to help reduce the number of pedestrians getting killed across the state. Although there was only one person wal ... 

An innovative fashion show that features couture made of recyclable material will take place tonight (Thursday) at 6 p.m. at Waccamaw Intermediate School. “Waccamaw Intermediate Gators Go Green,” will allow the students in all three grade ... 

On Saturday the Waccamaw Riverkeepers Association hosted its 10th annual Waccamaw River Conference. Conservationists and outdoorsmen alike packed into the Coastal Carolina University Extension in Litchfield to sit in on a series of seminar sessions o ... 

S.C. Rep. Alan Clemmons told members of the Georgetown Republican Patriots Club that Israel is receiving the wrong message from top leaders in America. Clemmons,  (R-Myrtle Beach) said he took a recent trip to Israel and also drafted a resolutio ... 

The Miss Carvers Bay High School pageant was held on Thursday, January 20, 2012 in the Carvers Bay High School Auditorium.  It was sponsored by the Carvers Bay High School P.T.O.  Contestants in the ninth and tenth grade competed for the t ... 

The Statue of Liberty is not allowed on the sidewalks in the City of Georgetown — at least not if she is drawing attention to a business that is not holding a sale or some other special event. For the past few weeks, people dressed in a Statue ... 

Liberals or Conservatives? Mojo wants to know The Editors, I could tell that Mojo had been sitting on something other than his hind legs for awhile. I got around to asking him what he was thinking about. "Are we liberals or conservatives?", he aske ... 

John Bogan John Henry Bogan, 78, passed away Monday, February 6, 2012 at his home. Born on March 25, 1933, in Swannanoa, N.C., he was the son of the late Odelle Bogan and the late Mary Stephenson Bogan.   Mr. Bogan was a U.S. Army Veteran of th ... 

By Chris Sokoloski csokoloski@gtowntimes.com Pawleys Island -- Waccamaw High's Nick Davis signed to play for the Greenville Titans and attend Greenville Tech last week. The Titans are a club team that plays against other club teams and college j ... 

By Chris Sokoloski csokoloski@gtowntimes.com Georgetown -- Georgetown High's LeeShawn Cromedy signed to play football at North Greenville University last week. "This is a chance for me to show off the pride of my school," Cromedy said. "Show off ... 

By Chris Sokoloski csokoloski@gtowntimes.com Georgetown High's girls basketball team battled back from a 30-point deficit in the fourth quarter last, but ran out of time and lost 62-47 to North Myrtle Beach. The Chiefs dominated the first three ... 

By Chris Sokoloski csokoloski@gtowntimes.com Georgetown -- A free throw by Marquise Besselieu in overtime gave Georgetown's boys basketball team a 37-36 win over North Myrtle Beach last week. "You know I want to win an ugly game," Bulldogs' coac ... 

By Chris Sokoloski csokoloski@gtowntimes.com Carvers Bay's girls basketball team lost 63-40 to Latta last week, in a very physical game that left several Bears limping and one bloodied. "Our girls played as hard as they could," Carvers Bay coach ... 

By Chris Sokoloski csokoloski@gtowntimes.com Carvers Bay's boys basketball team beat Latta 78-51 last week.. The Bears took a 19-10 lead at the end of the first quarter and extended it to 37-24 at the half and 59-35 at the end of the third. "Ou ... 

A woman and her two children were transported to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston after a one-car accident this morning. According to S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Sonny Collins, the accident happened at about 8:30 a.m. on Alba ... 

A former Georgetown County Detention Center officer who admitted in court he sexually assaulted three female inmates in 2009 says in court documents he did not commit the crimes. On Jan. 23, Belvin Lee Sherrill, 28, pleaded guilty to criminal sexual ... 

The eyewitness account stunned state wildlife officers: a 3-foot-high stack of grouper, piled as far as a football field, on a Georgetown dock. Commercial spear fishing was stripping clean artificial reefs that were meant for recreational fishing, an ... 

Georgetown County firefighters stayed very busy the past three days battling brush fires from south of Maryville to near Andrews. The biggest blaze was Saturday in a large wooded area on East CCC Road, which is near the Georgetown Marine Institute of ... 

The warmer-than-normal winter the area has been experiencing has kept ocean waters from cooling down as much as usual. This could mean a more active tropical season for the Southeastern United States unless ocean temperatures drop even more in the ne ... 

Georgetown County residents have expressed their frustration at more synthetic drugs coming on the market, including those that mimic the illegal drug ‘bath salts.’ Meanwhile, officials at the S.C. Poison Control Center said they have see ...